Participants 2014

Thomas Scheurer

Swiss National Park Scientific Board

Thomas Scheurer is scientific co-ordinator of Swiss National Park research. Furthermore he is managing director of the Swiss Interacademic Commission for Alpine Studies ICAS and of the International...            

Hans-Werner Schock

Hans-Werner Schock worked on the development of thin-film solar cells at the University of Stuttgart since the early 1970s. A series of R&D projects under his guidance resulted in several production lines...            

Bhaskar OBE Sen Gupta

Water Academy, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS

Professor in Water Technology, Heriot-Watt University, EDINBURGH Campus. Sen Gupta specialises in community water supply to resource poor communities. His work on arsenic remediation from groundwater in the...            

Qayum Ali Shah

BACIP - Building and Construction Improvement Programme

Qayum Ali Shah has a Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Pakistan and a Master’s degree from Canada in Planning. He is currently heading the Building and Construction Improvement Programme (BACIP),...            

Khop Narayan Shrestha

MDI Nepal

Khop Narayan Shrestha is the Executive Director of MDI Nepal (Manahari Development Institute- Nepal). He is active in promoting responsible agroforestry systems in the degraded lands affected primarily...            

Hammarskjoeld Simwinga

Foundation for wildlife and Habitat Conservation

My full names are Hammarskjold Simwinga, 45 years old, with four children. I live and work in the northern part of Zambia. For the past 20 years my work has been supporting rural communities with sustainable...            

Balbir Singh Seechewal

Ek Onkar Charitable Trust Seechewal

Balbir Singh Seechewal is a famous environmentalist, who was praised by Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the former president of India, as the preacher of “A Noble Mission”. The international Time Magazine...            

Andreas Speich

retired

Speich is a Swiss citizen and studied chemistry and forestry at the ETH Zurich. From 1982 to 1985 he was advisor at the Kenya Forest Department such as head of the forest Estate City of Zurich. He globally...            

Heinz Stockinger

Salzburg Platform Against Nuclear Hazards (PLAGE)

As a non-professional in the energy field, I came to play a key role in Austria’s “no” to nuclear power in the 1978 referendum on the country's first and ready-to-operate Zwentendorf NPP, and during the...            

Jean Thomas

Tenkile Conservation Alliance

Jean Thomas was a high school science teacher when she and husband Jim moved to a remote Papua New Guinea mountain in 2003 to devote their lives and limited resources to protecting a critically endangered...